On Aug. 31, 1886, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.3 devastated Charleston, South

Carolina, killing at least 60 people, according to the U.S.

Geological Survey.

Ten years ago

Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium. Police in Norway recovered the Edvard Munch masterpieces “The Scream” and “Madonna” two years after masked gunmen grabbed the national art treasures in front of stunned visitors at an Oslo museum.

Five years ago

The Wartime Contracting Commission issued a report saying the U.S. had lost billions of dollars to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan and stood to repeat that in future wars without big changes in how the government awarded and managed contracts for battlefield support and reconstruction projects. Betty Skelton Erde, 85, an aviation and auto racing pioneer once called the fastest woman on Earth, died in The Villages, Florida.

One year ago

President Barack Obama, opening a three-day visit to Alaska, painted a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change wasn’t dealt with fast: entire nations submerged underwater, cities abandoned and refugees fleeing in droves as conflict broke out across the globe.

— By The Associated Press